NEALES OF NOTTINGHAM in conjunction with the RNLI Nottingham and District branch and Nottingham Building Society arranged a celebration balloon flight on June 3, 1983, to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the Montgolfier...
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Oa the 8th of April the brigantine Cebufg, of Whitby , ran ashore in an E.8.E. gale* afear Bridlington Quay.
The Bridlington life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was immediately launched, and proceeded...
THE British and Norwegian crews of the whaling ships Southern Em- press and Southern Princess, on their return from their whaling season in the Antarctic, sent the Institution £51 2s. 3d..
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HOYLAKE AND NEW BRIGHTON.—On the afternoon of the 29th July the s.s. Flying Falcon, of Liverpool, bound there from Mostyn with a large number of passengers, stranded on the East Hoyle Sandbank near Spencer's Spit.
The...
To overcome the problem of lifesaving in shallow coastal waters, Germany's lifeboat Arwed Emminghaus can launch a smaller daughter boat from her after deck.. - View image in PDF
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Crew member Robbie Maiden spent 35 minutes in the water after being swept overboard from The Scout. - View image in PDF
The damage to the Waveney's mast and communications equipment is obvious.. - View image in PDF
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 27th October, 1937. A motor fishing boatwas in difficulties owing to an engine breakdown, but another fishing boat went to her help.—Rewards, £17 14s..
The second prototype Arun, Sir William Arnold (1973), was built of wood. She has the cutaway topsides but an early wheelhouse design later superceded.. - View image in PDF
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APRIL 15TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
It had been reported that an R.A.F. pilot was in a rubber dinghy in the Dee Estuary, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £18 18s..
OCTOBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A salvage steamer bringing scrap iron from a wreck had struck some rocks during. a fog and had sunk, but her crew were picked up from their small boat by an Aberdeen trawler. -...